She protested against the iniquity of this. But she protested in
vain. She was carried off into the grim captivity of a castle on
the Ahlen, to drag out in that melancholy duress another thirty-
two years of life.
Her death took place in November of 1726. And the story runs that
on her death-bed she delivered to a person of trust a letter to
her sometime husband, now King George I. of England. Seven months
later, as King George was on his way to his beloved Hanover, that
letter was placed in his carriage as it crossed the frontier into
Germany. It contained Sophia's dying declaration of innocence,
and her solemn summons to King George to stand by her side before
the judgment-seat of Heaven within a year, and there make answer
in her presence for the wrongs he had done her, for her blighted
life and her miserable death.
King George's answer to that summons was immediate. The reading
of that letter brought on the apoplectic seizure of which he died
in his carriage next day--the 9th of June, 1727--on the road to
Osnabruck.
XI. THE TYRANNICIDE
Charlotte Corday and Jean Paul Morat
Tyrannicide was the term applied to her deed by Adam Lux, her
lover in the sublimest and most spiritual sense of the word--for
he never so much as spoke to her, and she never so much as knew
of his existence.
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